250BCE | fragments/reports |
p.4 | 20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless | |
Full Idea: He said that dialectical arguments were like spiderswebs: although they seem to indicate craftsmanlike skill, they are useless. | |||
From: report of Ariston (fragments/reports [c.250 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.161 | |||
A reaction: Useful for the spider, but useless to Ariston. |
p.100 | 3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous | |
Full Idea: Ariston says that rules are useless if you are virtuous, and useless if you are not. | |||
From: report of Ariston (fragments/reports [c.250 BCE]) by Julia Annas - The Morality of Happiness 2.4 |
p.318 | 3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice | |
Full Idea: The chief good is to live in perfect indifference to all those things which are of an intermediate character between virtue and vice. | |||
From: report of Ariston (fragments/reports [c.250 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.2.1 |